Device for suspending trolley-wires, &amp;c.



W. H. WATTS.

DEVICE FOR SUSPBNDING TROLLEY WIRES, 6w. APPLIOATION rum) NOV. 1a, 1913.

1,1 1 6,522. Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

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WILLIAM H. WATTS, OF HAMILTON, VIRGINIA.

DEVICE FOR SUSPENDING TRDLlLEY-WIREL, the.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

Application filed November 18, 1913. Serial No. 801,722.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, \VILLIAM H. lVA'lTS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hamilton, in the county of IJOlldUllll and State ofVirginia, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Devicesfor Suspending Trolley-Wires, the; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill onableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompany ing drawings, and tothe letters and figures of reference marked thereon which form a part ofthis specification.

Thisinvention relates to certain new and useful improvements in meansfor siilpport ing trolley wlres and other electric conduc tors and ithas for its object the provision of a simple and practical hingedclamping device, the members of the clamp being hinged together at oneedge and their opposite edges being bent inward to engage the trolleywire or other electric conductor, the hinged members being attached tothe ends of the rods or wires and adapted to. be securely locked inposition required in holding the jaws firmly in contact with theelectrode carried by them.

The invention relates further to provision in connection with thesupport of means for quickly and readily locking the clamp to the wirecarried thereby.

While the invention is more particularly intended as a support fortrolley wires, it is also adapted for supporting cables and electricconductors of various kinds as will be readily understood.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain, the sameconsists in the novel construction and in the peculiar arrangement,combination and adaptation of parts, all as will. be more fullyhereinafter described, shown in the acompanying drawings and thenspecifically defined. in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings which,with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my inventionas it appears when about to be clamped to trolley wire. Fig. 2 is asimilar View showing the device securely clamped in po- I sition. Fig. 8is a. top plan view of the in vention showing the movement or the toolused in the operation of attaching the wire supporting clamp to thewire, and Fig. 4 L

is a face view of the invention. a

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numeral, 1represents a trolley wire provided upon its opposite sides with a groove3 and t are clamping.membershinged together at one of their edges and atthe opposite edges being bent inwardto engage the grooves 2 uponthewire. y a

5 is a wire or rod secured at one of its ends to the outer face of theclampin member 3 and at its opposite end being bent to form a laterallydisposed hook 6, said hook being designed to engage a. wire or rod 7,one end. of which wire is secured to the outer face of the member i ofthe clamping device, the free end 03!. the said wire being bent to forma loop 8.

From the foregoing descriptiomthe operation of the device will be atonce understood. The loop 8 is designed to engage the trolley supportingwire 9 and, when attached to the wire, the free end 10 of the portion ofthe wire forming the loop is bent inward, thus preventing displacementfrom the wire support. In use, the hook 6 is disengaged :lrom the wire 7when the hinged members of the trolley wire clamp carried. at the endsof the wires 5 and 'l' are separated or open to receive the trolleywire. The wires are then moved inwardly and the hook 6 brought intolocking engagement with the Wire 7, the hinged members of the clampbeing thus locked securely in position with the inwardly inclined edgesof the members in engagement with the slots oi? the trolley wire, thusholding the same securely in position.

As a means for readily locking the wires in engagement, I employ alocking tool 11 which consists of a single bar or wire comprising a bodyportion bent at its end to form an oblique angle and, when it isdesigned to force the wires into contact and look the hook 6 inengagement with the opposite wire, it is simply necessary to engage thehooked end of the tool with the hooked end of the wire 5 and bodyportion of the wire 7 as indicated in the drawings, when, by impartinganother motion to the free end of the tool 11, the hook carried by thewire 5 will be thrown into engagement with the wire 7 as will be readilyunderstood.

While I have shown and described the invention as applied to trolleywires, it is at once evident that the device can be equally well adaptedfor supporting cables and other forms of electric conductors, it beingonly required that the free meeting edges of the clamping members shouldbe so formed as to extend entirely around the cable or other device tobe supported.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new and desire tosecure by Letters Patentis a 1. A device for suspending trolley wires,comprising two jaws which are pivoted together, a suspending rodprojecting from one of said aws and bent to form a hook with its endspaced apart from the shank ofthe suspending rod, a rod projecting fromthehother jaw and having its end bent to form a hook in a plane at rightangles to lts shank portion and 111 almement with the end of the hookupon the suspending rod, designed to spring over the shank portion ofthe latter, as set forth.

2. A device for suspending trolley wires, comprising two elongated jawspivoted together the entire lengths of their inner longitudinal edges,the free longitudinal edge of each jaw inwardly bent, a rod projectingfrom one of the jaws bent to form a suspending hook with its end atright angles to and spaced apart from its shank portion, a rodprojecting "from the other jaw and having its end bent to form a hook ina plane at right angles to its shank portion and designed to spring overthe shank portion of the suspending hook intermediate the end of thelatter and its shank portion, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

VILLIAM H. \VATTS.

WVit-nesses:

WM. F. DOYLE, FRANKLIN H. HoUoH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

